Apocalypse Now context
Film Context
- Apocalypse Now is based loosely on Joseph Conrad’s 1898 novella Heart of Darkness
- Apocalypse now was directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- was released in 1979
- It is set at the height of the Vietnam war
- This movie was made while the Vietnam war was still happening
- The Vietnam war was the first televised war
- Guerrilla warfare was used by the Vietnam soldiers which involve torching soldiers, ambushes raids hit and run attacks etc.
- The Americans used napalm gas also known as agent orange which can causes death by burns.
- Coppola had almost full control over this film without any studio influence
- It took almost ten years to make this film and almost
- the film cost more then 30 million dollars
- a large amount of the money used for the film was from Coppola own pocket
Historical context
- the Vietnam war started on 1 Nov 1955 and ended on 30 Apr 1975
- the war was between America and Vietnam
- America ended up pulling out of the war
- the war took place South Vietnam, North Vietnam,Cambodia and Laos
- Vietnam lost over 200,000 – 400,000 civilians and 170,000-220,000 military
- over 58,000 Americans died
- Vietnam War has the longest US combat force participation (17.4 years)
- the Vietnam War began in 1954, though ongoing conflict in the region had stretched back several decades.
- the main form of transport during the war for the american s were boats
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